July 19th, 10am-4pm | Landwell Community | Sebastopol, CA
Homecoming:
Joanna Macy’s Legacy in Practice and Song
MaMuse and Lydia Violet
Lydia Violet and MaMuse
Will guide us through an intimate homecoming experience weaving Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects (WTR) with the beauty and nourishment of singing together.This gathering takes place on the one-year anniversary of Joanna Macy’s passing, offering a special opportunity to honor her extraordinary legacy and the countless lives she touched. Together, we will celebrate the practices, teachings, and generosity of spirit she offered the world, not only through remembrance, but through participation; by singing, connecting, grieving, rejoicing, and strengthening our commitment to the living world she loved so deeply.
Developed through Joanna Macy’s lifelong work in systems theory, deep ecology, Buddhism, and more than fifty years of international activism, the WTR offers practices that help us return to presence, belonging, and relationship in a time of profound change.Through meditation, song, reflection, and shared experience, we will explore ways of coming home to ourselves, to one another, and to the living world as we deepen our capacity to care for both people and planet.
Singing in a circle of friends is one of the most nourishing and life-giving things we know.
Hearts opened by grief, beauty, longing, love, and uncertainty naturally want to sing. Through song, reflection, and shared practice, we will explore how music can strengthen our courage, deepen our belonging, and help us metabolize the intensity of these times without losing touch with joy, tenderness, and aliveness. This gathering invites participants into both the living legacy of Joanna Macy’s teachings and the resourcing power of communal song.
We’ll be drawing from:
• Folk music traditions from Europe, Iran, Armenia, and North America.
• Songs written by MaMuse, Lydia Violet, and their current community songleading colleagues.
• Improvisational collaboration
This gathering offers music not as performance alone, but as a living practice of resilience, reconnection, and collective homecoming.
Lydia Violet and MaMuse
Will guide us through an intimate homecoming experience weaving Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects (WTR) with the beauty and nourishment of singing together.This gathering takes place on the one-year anniversary of Joanna Macy’s passing, offering a special opportunity to honor her extraordinary legacy and the countless lives she touched. Together, we will celebrate the practices, teachings, and generosity of spirit she offered the world, not only through remembrance, but through participation; by singing, connecting, grieving, rejoicing, and strengthening our commitment to the living world she loved so deeply.
Developed through Joanna Macy’s lifelong work in systems theory, deep ecology, Buddhism, and more than fifty years of international activism, the WTR offers practices that help us return to presence, belonging, and relationship in a time of profound change.Through meditation, song, reflection, and shared experience, we will explore ways of coming home to ourselves, to one another, and to the living world as we deepen our capacity to care for both people and planet.
Singing in a circle of friends is one of the most nourishing and life-giving things we know.
Hearts opened by grief, beauty, longing, love, and uncertainty naturally want to sing. Through song, reflection, and shared practice, we will explore how music can strengthen our courage, deepen our belonging, and help us metabolize the intensity of these times without losing touch with joy, tenderness, and aliveness. This gathering invites participants into both the living legacy of Joanna Macy’s teachings and the resourcing power of communal song.
We’ll be drawing from:
• Folk music traditions from Europe, Iran, Armenia, and North America
• Songs written by MaMuse, Lydia Violet, and their current community songleading colleagues
• Improvisational collaboration
This gathering offers music not as performance alone, but as a living practice of resilience, reconnection, and collective homecoming.
MaMuse
Deeply rooted in folk and gospel traditions, MaMuse creates soul-stirring music that invites connection, healing, and wholehearted participation in life.
With luminous harmonies and emotionally rich songwriting, Sarah Nutting and Karisha Longaker weave together voices and acoustic instrumentation into an experience that is both intimate and expansive.
Their music carries warmth, reverence, playfulness, and a palpable devotion to life.Together, we will sing songs carried across generations that have helped people endure, resist, celebrate, and remember.
Lydia Violet
The founder of School for The Great Turning, a learning community rooted in the lineage of Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, and devoted to braiding practical capacities for leadership, movement-building, grief-to-action, and everyday community response with the ongoing work of personal healing, cultural remembering, and collective transformation in the midst of our planetary crisis.
Joanna Macy
Founder of the Work that Reconnects, Buddhist philosopher, deep ecology and systems thinking scholar, nuclear activist, translator of Rilke’s poetry, adventurer, and our beloved mentor and friend
Details for the In-Person Event
📅 July 19th
🕐 10 am-4 pm
🌿 Landwell Community
🌻 Sebastopol, CA
Community rate
$60
True Cost
$90
Sustainer
$120
If you need additional financial subsidy to attend, please fill out this form.